Rohini Kale
Pune
Summary
Certified SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) with 11+ years of extensive IT experience passionate about designing the business requirements in a cost effective way. Skilled in agile processes and working in cloud native platforms. Excellent in relationship-building and stakeholder management. Formerly worked as Test Architect/Test Lead.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Owner
Vanderlande
09.2023 - Current
- Worked as a Product Owner for a Functional Module in a Warehouse Platform Development Product
- Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders by maintaining open lines of communication and addressing concerns promptly.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where, and when each component would work.
- Acted as Proxy Chief Product Owner to take conduct backlog refinement sessions across Agile Release Train (ART) and created/updated product backlog according to discussions
- Participated in PI planning event at ART level so that PI planning per iterations for corresponding Functional module is done, collaborated with different ART teams to identify dependencies and presented PI plan to stakeholders
Product Owner
Amdocs
05.2020 - 09.2023
- Participated in Discovery/Ideate phase of requirement gathering to understand key requirements and prepare solution design accordingly which involves creating high level and low level design documents, third party integration documents, mock-ups, behavioral diagrams, user stories, acceptance criteria etc.
- Involved in getting sign off from external stakeholders for designed features and facilitating with test/dev team to give them feature demos
- Collaborated with rest of product management team to identify areas of improvement, gaps and new features to create and maintain them in product backlog
- Coordinated with different scrum teams to give them walkthrough of design, remove their impediments and assist them in meeting sprint/release goal
- Engaged with Scrum masters for effort estimation, sprint plan and to follow Jira cadence
- Supported product deployments into production from design point of view
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
Test Lead
Amdocs
03.2019 - 05.2020
- Led and managed offshore testing activities which involved managing offshore testing team, risk management and ability to
execute appropriate contingency plan in case of risk, test planning and execution for both manual and automation frameworks. - Create comprehensive software testing plans that included resource requirements, schedule testing scope based on inputs from management and designers, conduct defect triage calls, preparing release notes etc.
- Reported progress and other day to day testing updates to higher management or external clients regarding test planning, test schedule, test status, issues and other metrics using various test reporting tools.
- Acted as Point of Contact for all testing activities for offshore.
Actively involved in customer demos and implemented industry "best practices" for betterment of project
Test Architect/Test Specialist
Amdocs
06.2017 - 02.2019
- Have worked as Test Architect in this stint where was responsible to plan and manage E2E Testing activities for project which offered ethernet services.
- Coordinated testing activities with high-performing Software Testing Team of 20 personnel through all phases of testing both
manual and automation, to ensure end- user requirements are met. - Travelled to client side multiple times to help them gain confidence in feature and to help them in conducting beta
testing alongside actual end users. - Prepare, design, and led Test Strategy and Test Plan for all projects; conducted review activities such as Use Case review, Test
Design Review. Gave multiple demonstration of features built to external stakeholders. - Involved right from Ideate/Discovery stage of business requirements.
- Part of E2E testing team and Scrum team too in this tenure where various scrum level testing activities were performed
Quality Analyst
Cybage Pvt Ltd
03.2014 - 06.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini Pvt Ltd
01.2012 - 03.2014
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication
University of Pune
07.2007 - 08.2011
Skills
Accomplishments
- Received Certificate of Excellence from Amdocs CEO in a Global Townhall
- Received multiple Spot Awards from Clients
Additional Information
- Currently holding an active B1/B2 US Visa
Timeline
Product Owner
Vanderlande
09.2023 - Current
Product Owner
Amdocs
05.2020 - 09.2023
Test Lead
Amdocs
03.2019 - 05.2020
Test Architect/Test Specialist
Amdocs
06.2017 - 02.2019
Quality Analyst
Cybage Pvt Ltd
03.2014 - 06.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini Pvt Ltd
01.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication
University of Pune
07.2007 - 08.2011
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